Lesson Idea | Using Teacher in Role: The Gruffalo
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Teacher in Role
Teacher in role is an invaluable technique for shaping the dramatic process and developing students’ learning. The teacher takes on a role related to a story or theme and sets up a dramatic situation for students to participate in.
Why Use It?
The teacher can directly participate in the dramatic process and influence it from the inside. This makes it possible to present challenging and controversial points of view and to stimulate thought, discussion and action. Teacher in role validates and supports the children’s involvement in a make-believe situation by enabling the teacher to work and ‘play’ alongside them. Children are used to stepping into and out of role in everyday play and are often keen to participate.
Using Teacher in Role: The Gruffalo
This complete lesson plan for 4-7 years includes such activities as Teacher in Role, Sounds of the Forest, Exploring the Woods, Funny Faces, Gruffalo’s Footsteps and Advice Line. You’ll need a copy of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, which you can find on Amazon.
How to Do It
You don’t need great acting skills! Just ‘step into somebody else’s shoes’ for a while to put forward their point of view. If you can use different voices for characters when you tell a story, then you can certainly carry out teacher in role. The use of a token prop or piece of costume can clarify when you are stepping in and out of role: “When I put on this scarf I will be Anne Frank,” or “When I sit in this chair I will be the King.”
You can try out role-play with hot-seating. This will give you valuable experience of assuming a role in relation to the students and responding to comments and questions. Progress to Teacher in Role by encouraging students to participate in the drama.
Teacher in Role can easily be used across the curriculum. In Art, take the role of a character from a painting; in Geography become an aid worker or explorer; History lessons can be livened up by a Roman centurion, an Ancient Egyptian child or an archaeologist; stories, of course, provide the greatest source of characters – whether you become the Gruffalo, the Minotaur, Red Riding Hood, Anansi, or Cyclops.
Lesson Idea | Using Teacher in Role: The Gruffalo
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